Onward Together
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821291110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6463895030
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $681,759
- Expenses
- $1,272,376
- Assets
- $1,660,959
- Liabilities
- $68,325
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MINYON MOORE (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MINYON MOORE (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES BAKER (DIRECTOR/TREASURER)
- RESHMA SAUJANI (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
By encouraging people to organize, get involved, and run for office, onward together will advance progressive values and work to build a brighter future for generations to come.
What it reported doing in 2024
Encouraging people to organize, get involved, and run for office in order to advance progressive values and work to build a brighter future for generations to come.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -86.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 43.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $548K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $575K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.